[139862] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: VPN over slow Internet connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Kim)
Thu Apr 21 14:53:58 2011
From: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
To: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:53:55 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4DB07136.90508@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Nothing like getting into the groove=2C then losing your connection=2C wait=
ing for the modem to dial back up
and then try to figure out what you were just doing!!! Again=2C it goes bac=
k to what I mentioned=2C it "could" work
but how will that affect your overall productivity.
Is over the air 3G or 4G not available? I'm assuming that modem is being us=
ed because broadband is not in the area....
> Date: Thu=2C 21 Apr 2011 14:02:30 -0400
> From: ryanczak@gmail.com
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: VPN over slow Internet connections
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> On 04/21/2011 01:32 PM=2C Brandon Kim wrote:
> > I vote for Patrick's idea of allowing the end user to remote into a mac=
hine where the SQL resides.
> >
> > This would eliminate a lot of potential issues....wish I had thought of=
that first!!!
> I third this idea. Using screen would be a good idea as well.
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> This reminds me a project I worked on last century were we had people=20
> direct dialing our facility over modems to use a custom DB front end=20
> presented using Citrix.
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> One of the big challenges was dropped calls. Persistence is your friend=20
> under these circumstances. At least the end users don't lose work.
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